Quotes tagged ‘Discovery’

“I found a neat and scary clue.”

— Craig Titley, Daphne Blake, Sarah Michelle Gellar, imdb.com

“Most importantly, we discovered that deep down, this powerful kingpin is really just a fun dude who's into cool stuff, like smoothies.”

— Rob Klein, Duffy Boudreau, Bill Hader, Denver McIver, Bill Hader, imdb.com

“I wasn't going to stop until I got the truth.”

— Sam Levinson, Rue, Zendaya, imdb.com

“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is; and this we…”

— Marcel Proust, amazon.com

“I hope you find what you’re looking for.”

— John Lasseter, Sally Carrera (voice), Bonnie Hunt, imdb.com

“What we need is a good opening sentence. Something that will smack the reader right between the eyes, and then take him on a virtual roller-coaster ride of self-awareness and discovery.”

— Jerry Perzigian, Don Seigel, Frasier Crane, Kelsey Grammer, imdb.com

“This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove th…”

— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com

“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything in space in the past – some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”

— E. a. Bucchianeri, amazon.com

“Never let others define you. You define yourself.”

— Emmitt Smith, briandoddonleadership.com

“I’ve found out that Malakula was named by Captain James Cook. It comes from the French mal au cul which means ‘pain in the arse’ after Cook found it difficult to deal with cannibals, volcanoes and other annoying features. It’s good to know proper explorers sometimes share the feelings I have on my t…”

— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com

“It was found that broth in which the mould had been grown at room temperature for one or two weeks had acquired marked inhibitory, bacteriocidal and bacteriolytic properties to many of the more common pathogenic bacteria.”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had absorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.”

— Dwight Schrute, imdb.com

“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”

— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

“I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”

— Edmund Hillary, goodreads.com